Well, two out of three is not bad. [sarcasm]Looks like the Pharmaceutical mafia experts overlooked a few things in their trials.
SOMEONE ALWAYS DIES IN AN ABORTION.
Posted on 07/25/2005 12:50:36 PM PDT by churchillbuff
LOS ANGELES - Federal health investigators are baffled: Why have four California women died from a bloodstream infection after using a controversial abortion pill?
"On the surface, this appears unusual," said Dr. Marc Fischer, a medical epidemiologist at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. "That's why we're investigating."
Two of the deaths -- one this year and one last year -- were reported last week by the Food and Drug Administration. The other two deaths occurred in 2003. All were caused by sepsis, a bloodstream infection, health officials say.
Sold as Mifeprex, and also known as RU-486 or mifepristone, the drug is taken as two pills at different times. None of the women who died followed FDA-approved instructions for taking the drug, and authorities are looking into whether that may have played a role in their deaths.
The FDA said there is no proof that Mifeprex caused the deaths. The agency is ordering that the drug's label be updated, however, to alert women and doctors in more detail to the infections. It already contains a "black-box" warning highlighting the risk of bacterial infection, sepsis and death. Reports of fatal sepsis among the pill's users are rare, occurring one in 100,000 cases.
More than 460,000 women in the United States have used Mifeprex since it was invented in France in the 1980s. It is approved to end a pregnancy up to 49 days after the start of a woman's last menstrual cycle.
Because there is a God?
"Two people ingested the same poison and only the weaker one was supposed to die, but both of them did instead. it really is very confusing."
Looks like the proper death toll would be 460,004.
SOMEONE ALWAYS DIES IN AN ABORTION.
Oh, the irony...
LIBs:"Since this drug never could have been the cause of the deaths, as it would go against our cause, I would ask the FBI look at right-wing fanatical anti-choice groups for conspiracy possibilities..."
Basically the drug is working too well. It's killing 2 for 1.
FDA "Except for the fact that several people have taken the pill and died. Nothing to see here. This is the price of doing business."
The very concept should make a person wonder. How do you know you're not taking it late? How do you know everything has been evacuated properly? Doesn't the idea of ingesting massive amounts of hormones strike a person as a bad thing? Sheesh.
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The FDA said there is no proof that Mifeprex caused the deaths. The agency is ordering that the drug's label be updated, however, to alert women and doctors in more detail to the infections. It already contains a "black-box" warning highlighting the risk of bacterial infection, sepsis and death. Reports of fatal sepsis among the pill's users are rare, occurring one in 100,000 cases.
After reading this I understand why the FDA is stating that the abortion pill could not have definitely caused the deaths... -sarcasm
If any other kind of pill had caused one death, let alone four, the Left would be screaming for its removal from the shelves. Yet here, the Left just shrugs.
THe article says the reports of fatal sepsis are rare, occuring in 1 out of every 100,000 uses.
It says that 460,000 women have used it in the U.S. (total) since it was created in the 1980s
It says that 4 CALIFORNIA users have died of fatal sepsis in the last 3 years.
SO, either nobody in the rest of the country died, or ALL the pill users are from california, or they have to update their "deaths per 100,000" value.
I think the "shocking" thing the doctors have found is that someone reported deaths due to abortion. Most doctors will not report any statistics which could make abortion look bad.
Hmmm...maybe a pill designed to snuff out a life might be a signal it's dangerous?
"safe, legal, and rare"? // two out of three is not bad.
Which two do you give them credit for? I have them batting .333.
It was well known that this stuff was dangerous. Taking pills that mess with a woman's reproductive cycle is really dicing with death or serious damage to her health.
Do you get the feeling that somewhere they are going to blame some right wing group on all these deaths?
Merck has something like 500 lawsuits and less deaths caused by it's drug which actually helped alot of people. Ahhhh PC strikes again.
LOL
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